San Sebastian Unveils WIP Latam Lineup

The 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival has presented the Latin American features of its Work in Progress (WIP) Latam session. The selection unveiled on Wednesday includes six films from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, and Costa Rica, and four of them are either directors’ first or second films. 

Among the noteworthy submissions is The Message by Argentinian director Iván Fund, who has been previously in San Sebastian with Dusk Stone (2021). It is a road picture of rural Argentina with Marcelo Subiotto, who scooped the Silver Shell for best actor last year for his performance in Puan. 
 
Uruguayan actor turned director Danial Hendler said that, this will be his fifth time that he will be attending the festival with a film titled A Loose End which is a border drama. Nayra Ilic’s white-sky coming-of-age story Chice from Chile and Paula Morel Kristof’s debut feature Muña Muña from Argentina also form part of the line up. 
 
Rounding out the selection are two first-time feature directors: Colombia’s Simón Vélez with Gemstones, that poses a thematic as the title of theft of gemstones For the right spark for the night, Kim Torres of Costa Rica with If We Don’t Burn, How Do We Light up the Night, a rural based horror story. 
 
As it was already stated, WIP Latam section of San Sebastian is an effective starting platform for the cinema of Latin America and such movies as Young and Wild, The Gentle Indifference of the World which participate in this section, may be presented at such festivals as Berlin and Cannes after that. The selected films of this year will fight for the WIP Latam Industry Award that includes postproduction services and Spanish distribution, and EGEDA Platino Industry Award that is endowed with €30000 ( $ 33,000) only. 
 
This important initiative that sustained by Ibermedia Programme and several partners in the industry remains essential to disseminates and build the Latin American cinema on the international level.